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Sebastián Piñera
This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Piñera and the second or maternal family name isEchenique.
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel ˈxwan sevasˈtjan piˈɲeɾa etʃeˈnike]; born December 1, 1949) is a Chilean businessman and politician. He was elected President of Chile in January 2010, taking office in March2010.
Family
Sebastián Piñera is the third child of the marriage between José Piñera Carvallo and Magdalena Echenique Rozas, born on December 1, 1949 in Santiago de Chile. His brothers are María Magdalena, José Manuel, Juan Pablo, José Miguel and María Teresa. Sebastián Piñera is Basque - cantabric ancestry. Among his ancestors include for the maternal side, her great great grandmother, LuisaPinto Garmendia, a cultured and aristocratic woman, sister of President Aníbal Pinto Garmendia and daughter of President Francisco Antonio Pinto and Luisa Garmendia Alurralde, who was a descendant of the last Inca emperor Huayna Capac. Among family ties also include his cousin brother Andres Chadwick, a political cousin José Antonio Viera-Gallo.
Education
One year after his birth, Piñera's familymoved abroad to Belgium and later to New York City where his father was the Chilean ambassador to the United Nations. Piñera returned to Chile in 1955 and was enrolled in the Colegio del Verbo Divino ("Divine Word College"), from which he graduated in 1967.
Piñera then matriculated at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile to undertake his undergraduate degree in Business andAdministration, from which he graduated in 1971. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Raúl Iver Oxley Prize which is given to the best overall student of each class.
Piñera continued on to study at Harvard University on a partial Fulbright Program for hispostgraduate studies in economics. During his time at Harvard, Piñera and a classmate co-authored an article titled, "The Old South's Stake in theInter-Regional Movement of Slaves" for the Journal of Economic History. After three years at Harvard, Piñera graduated with both a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics.
Teaching career
Once graduated, Piñera was an educator from 1971 until 1988. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Chile, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Adolfo Ibáñez University. In 1971, he was professor of EconomicPolitical Theory in the School of Economics at the University of Chile and in 1972, was a professor at the Valparaiso Business School.
Personal life
Piñera married Cecilia Morel in December 1973. They were neighbours in the Avenida Américo Vespucio, Santiago.
They have four children:
Magdalena (1975), a History and Geography Teacher;
Cecilia (1978), a Pediatrician;
Sebastián (1982), aCommercial Engineer
Cristóbal (1984), a Psychologist.

Foundations
In 1989, accompanied by Cecilia Morel, Danica Radic, and Paula Délano, Piñera created the Enterprising Women Foundation (Fundación Mujer Emprende), originally called The House of Youth (La Casa de la Juventud). The foundation aims to assist in the development of young women of lower-income.
In 1993, Piñera created thefoundation Fundación Futuro, of which he is president and whose directors are Cristián Boza D., María Teresa Chadwick P., Hugo Montes B., Cecilia Morel M., Renato Poblete S.J. and Fabio Valdés C. The head director of the foundation is Magdalena Piñera. The foundation’s mission is to help in Chile’s development of justice, freedom and democracy. The foundation was renamed to Fundación Cultura ySociedad following Piñera's presidential election win.
Under the Fundación Cultura y Sociedad (formerly Fundación Futuro) the Grupo Tantauco is created with the mission ofenvironmentalism, and is administered by Juan Carlos Urquidi. It was created to support the proposals brought forth by Piñera, which he plans to make effective during his presidency. In 2005, Piñera created Tantauco Park (Spanish:...